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I like how easy this game is to mod, which is something I discovered rummaging through and tinkering in the sprites folder, but I do have a couple questions. Firstly, I was wondering what the difficulty value does, as I never noticed any particular difference in difficulty between characters while playing even though they all have different values. Second, is there a way to have more than 8 stages of growth for a character? I can't find any value that seems to indicate a number of stages, so are all character just hard-coded for 8? Thanks in advance! Or if you don't answer thanks anyways, your game is great!